3 awards for EAVE project ALI, THE GOAT AND IBRAHIM at Final Cut in Venice
Awards September 2015
- FRENZY by Emin Alper, producer: EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen won the Special Jury Prize and the Arca CinemaGiovani Award Best film at the Venice Film Festival
- MARGUERITE by Xavier Giannoli, co-producer: EAVE graduate Artemio Benki won the P. Nazareno Taddei Award
- The Lion of the Future - Laurentiis Prize for a First Film and the Best Director award of the Orizzonti section went to THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER by Brady Corbet, co-producer: EAVE graduate Helena Danielsson
- NEON BULL by Gabriel Mascaro, producer: EAVE graduate Marleen Slot received the Special Jury Prize of the Orizzonti section
- 11 MINUTES by Jerzy Skolimowski, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney and REMEMBER by Atom Egoyan, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jens Meurer received a Special Mention by the Young Jury Members of the Vittorio Veneto Film Festival
- EAVE project ALI, THE GOAT AND IBRAHIM by Ibrahim El Batout, producers: EAVE graduate Hossam Elouan, EAVE graduate Guillaume de Seille was awarded by CNC, Kightworks and Titra TVS at Final Cut in Venice
- ROOM by Lenny Abrahamson, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- The Special Jury Prize of the Gdynia Film Festival was handed to 11 MINUTES by Jerzy Skolimowski, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney. The film won also the music and editing awards.
- EAVE project THE HERE AFTER by Magnus von Horn, producer: EAVE graduate Mariusz Wlodarski, co-producer: EAVE graduate Sophie Erbs was awarded Best Director and Best Screenplay
- WASTELAND by Pieter Van Hees, producer: Film Finance Forum graduate Carolien Vergote won four awards at the Ensors, the Flemish film awards in Oostende. The film was awarded Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Actress as well as Best Screenplay.
- BRABANÇONNE by Vincent Bal, producer: EAVE graduate Peter Bouckaert, co-producers: EAVE graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum and EAVE graduate and Head of Studies Jani Thiltges received the prize for Best Actress.
- PARADISE TRIPS by Raf Reyntjens, producer: EAVE graduate Peter De Maegd won Best Actor and Best Costumes
- VIOLET by Bas Devos, producer: EAVE graduate Tomas Leyers was awarded Best Cinematography
- Kamar Ahmad Simon won the Asian Pitch in Singapore for the second time, now for BLUE HELMET, producer: EAVE graduate Sara Afreen. Four leading television channels are organising the event every year. They are funding the winner film’s production, screen it in their prime-time slots and initiate the international marketing-distribution once the film is completed.
- EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis was awarded Prix France Télévision’s Jeune Producteur. The prize was handed out at the festival Off-Courts at Trouville.
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- THE OMISSION by Sebastián Schjaer, produced EAVE+ graduate Titus Kreyenberg won the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
- THE PETROV FILE by Georgi Balabanov, co-producers: EAVE graduates Guido Schwab and Marcel Lenz was awarded Best director at the Montreal World Film Festival
- CHUCKS by Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl, producers: Danny Krausz won the Public Award for the most popular film of the Festival
- MARZIA, MY FRIEND by Kirsi Mattila, producer: EAVE participant Elina Pohjola received the Award for Best Documentary.
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- MA FOLIE by Andrina Mracnikar, producer: EAVE graduate Ursula Wollschlager won the First Steps Award for best feature movie.
- BROTHER DEJAN by Bakur Bakuradze, producer: EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Miroslav Mogorovic was awarded the Grand Prix Batumi Film Festival.
- The prize for Best Film Directing went to PEACE TO US IN OUR DREAMS by Sharunas Bartas, producer: EAVE graduate Janja Kralj.
- Best Short film was THE CHICKEN by Uma Gunjak, co-producers: EAVE graduate Sinisa Juricic and B’EST graduate Jelena Goldbach.
- NECKTIE YOUTH by Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, producer: EAVE graduate Elias Ribeiro won the award of Best South African Feature Film at the Durban International Film Festival. The film also received the international jury award for Best Director, awarded to Shongwe La-Mer.
- THE HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanic, producer: EAVE graduate and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Miroslav Mogorovic and EAVE graduate Petra Vidmar received the Slovenian Art Cinema Network Award at the Portorose Slovenian Film Festival.
- THE REAPER by Zvonimir Juric, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian national Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic won the award for Best Minority Co-production while HOUSE (DOM) by Metod Pevec, producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar won Best Documentary and the Audience Award.
- TOTO AND HIS SISTERS by Alexander Nanau, producer: EAVE graduate Marcian Lazar won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary film at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
- THE HIGH SUN by Dalibor Matanic, producer: EAVE graduate and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic, co-producers: EAVE graduate and Serbian National Coordinator Miroslav Mogorovic and EAVE graduate Petra Vidmar won the CICAE Award.
- The CineLink Awards:
- A BALLAD, written and directed by Aida Begic, producer: EAVE graduate Adis Djapo received the Eurimages Co-production Development Award and the Synchro Film Vienna CineLink Award.
- SOLDIERS by Ivana Mladenovic, producer: EAVE graduate & Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon was given the Living Pictures Service CineLink Award.
- The EAVE Scholarship went to Alem Babic
- THE FIXER by Adrian Sitaru, producers: EAVE graduate Anamaria Antoci and EAVE graduate and French National Coordinator Jean des Forêts obtained the Work in Progress Post Republic Award
- KORIDA by Sinisa Vidovic, producers: EAVE graduates Arash T. Riahi, Karin C. BergerDocu Rough Cut Boutique Work in Progress Digital Cube Award and the HBO Adria Award
- The WarnierPosta Prize for UNKNOWN FAMILY by Ron Termaat, producer: EAVE graduate Reinier Selen at the HFM Co-Production Platform Selection
- Special Mention for APPLE OF MY EYE by Yaron Shani, producer: EAVE graduate Saar Yogev
- The Filmmore HFM Work-in-Progress Prize for A QUIET PASSION by Terence Davies, co-producer: EAVE graduate Peter de Maegd at the Work-in-Progress session
- The Haghefilm International Post-Production Prize went to UPSTREAM by Marion Hänsel, executive producer: EAVE graduate and Croatian National Coordinator Ankica Juric Tilic
Page published 30 September 2015.
